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Hidden and triumphant : the underground struggle to save Russian iconography / Irina Yazykova ; translated by Paul Grenier ; foreword by Wendy R. Salmond.
LIBRA N8189.R9 I295 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- I︠A︡zykova, I. K. (Irina Konstantinovna)
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Icons, Russian--20th century.
- Icons, Russian.
- Icon painting--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.
- Icon painting.
- Art and society--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- History.
- Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- x, 194 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Wendy Salmond
- Introduction: Word and image
- Icons as a witness to eternity within a world of change
- Perfect artists and philosophers of the highest wisdom : the iconographic tradition, 900-1900
- The discovery of the icon and the new iconoclasts
- The Russian emigration and its quest for the iconic
- Beauty against totalitarianism : icons and iconoclasm in the Soviet Union, 1920-1979
- The return of sacred sites : the rebirth of iconography, 1980-2000
- Appendix A: New Russian iconographers : leading artists and developments of the new millennium
- Appendix B: Beauty saving the world : the icon outside of Russia
- Appendix C: Direction, training, and workshops : iconography programs.
- Notes:
- Translated from Russian.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1557255644
- 9781557255648
- OCLC:
- 213839272
- Publisher Number:
- 99950420933
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